Questions tagged [jaws-screen-reader]
JAWS is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows.
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What determines where the focus goes back to when clicking on a browser's back button?
As far as I can tell, it is in part determined by the HTML spec's History API1, specifically the value of history.scrollRestoration. Quoting the HTML spec's scroll restoration mode paragraph:
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JAWS Screen Reader reads page title twice
I have a simple ASPX page like the one below:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="...
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Jaws reading hyperlink twice in IE 11
I'm trying to mark up some xhtml so that dropdown menus can be read by Jaws but I'm having trouble getting it to work in IE 11. The link texts are read out twice as I tab through them. It works fine ...
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How to get JAWS to update its cache of aria-hidden values
I have a webapp where we dynamically toggle the aria-hidden attribute on certain elements in response to user input. This seems to work fine with VoiceOver but apparently fails miserably with JAWS. ...
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issue with reading multiple span tag using JAWS
I am trying simple HTML structure to read by JAWS screen reader
<html>
<head>
<title>test code</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#"></a>
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JAWS - Submitted form in iframe reads source URL even though there is a title
I'm developing a form that is displayed in an iframe. When the form is first displayed (on click) I add a title to the iframe, and JAWS reads everything nicely.
When the form is submitted with errors, ...
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Tagged annotation link not reading properly in PDF with JAWS?
What is the problem?
By using PDFBOX I tried to tag a link which contains annotation. The PDF creating sample code is here. I tagged a nested paragraph link by using PDFBOX. The newly created tagged ...
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How to move focus from "skip to main content" to an iframe and access iframe content in JAWS?
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In my application, content in Iframe is loading from server side and entire markup comes from the backend. There is navigation menu buttons in the main html page and Skip to main content ...
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ComboBox not accessible with JAWS
When focussing on a ComboBox, JAWS says that you can alter the selection by using the arrow keys on your keyboard. But when altering, the user gets no audio feedback of the selected item.
Narrator ...
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How can I make JAWS read the contents of a UserControl the same way it does a Window?
JAWS (the screen reader) is treating the contents of a WPF user control differently than the contents of a window. The first time a user tabs to a focusable element in a user control, JAWS reads the ...
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Screen reader consistency issue
I am using Jaws 15 and IE 8 to test acccessibility of my website and found some weird issue with role alert on page load if I am having any role alert which is apart of DOM on page load JAWS/NVDA ...
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Accessibility (JAWS) - Dropdown list with Jquery Searchable-Multi-select-jQuery-Dropdown
I am using searchable multiselect JQuery control from here. Demo control -- I am using Multi-select+JSON+Token Mode control
This is lightweight and useful plug in. I am using "Multi-select+JSON+...
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For password box Jaws reader reads "password edit password edit password edit"
I have an UWP applicaion with a password box inside it.
I have JAWS 2020 reader install in my system.
For the password box the JAWS reader reads "password edit password edit password edit".
Is there ...
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How to make JAWS screen reader read elements in wpf application sequentially?
I have a WPF application window where user needs to enter their username and password to log in.
As shown in the following image.
wpf window
I want JAWS to read the text like this.
My Application
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Accessibility Does Not Read Select Properly (JAWS)
I have a select element inside of the modal used in Bootstrap. When the screen reader (Jaws), reads the select box when it loads it reads through all the options inside of the select. Instead it ...
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